The university's Faculties of Biology, Clinical Medicine, and Clinical Veterinary Medicine are unveiling a series of major reforms to their graduate training programmes.

The university's Faculties of Biology, Clinical Medicine, and Clinical Veterinary Medicine are unveiling a series of major reforms to their graduate training programmes.

In what is probably the first major shake-up since the programmes were initially set up, the decision has been made to establish a single new graduate school - the Graduate School of Biological, Medical and Veterinary Sciences.

Several members of the new joint Graduate Education Committee. From left to right: Professor Ken Siddle (School of Clinical Medicine, Assistant Chairman of the Committee); Dr Barbara Sahakian (School of Clinical Medicine); Professor Joe Herbert (Department of Anatomy, Chairman of the Committee); Dr David Sargan (Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Assistant Chairman of the Committee).

This new graduate school will encompass all three disciplines, and will be composed of three major elements:

There will also be a number of new courses for graduates, to help improve their background knowledge in cognate fields, as well as to expand their generic and transferable skills. All graduate academic activity will be recorded in a Student Log, and this will be checked periodically by the Graduate Education Committee for each graduate student's Department or Institution.

Other improvements will include the establishment of a new directory of experts, through which students will be able to search out academics throughout the university able to help them with specific queries relating to their research.

Information relating to all the planned changes and improvements are available on the graduate school's new web site.

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